On 07/17/2015 11:32 AM, David Conrad wrote: > > No. .LOCAL was not already in the root zone. .FOO is. > *** Therefore the .FOO label is not available for Special-Use anymore, end of story. A Special-Use name cannot be an already registered name in the root zone.
If you referring to e.g., .corp that has proposals both for Special-Use and normal ICANN assignation, this is a distinct issue, as the label is not yet in the root zone, and there are good reasons why it would be a bad idea to put it there (already existing name conflicts) but not compelling (if the .corp registrar is ready to deal with the extra load, or if capturing all the "leaked" requests from random devices around the world is not deemed to pose a security issue...). This is an entirely different matter. Now if there's a prior request for Special-Use and an ICANN registration appears after the fact, that would be a problem: if someone would ask to register .onion or .gnu today, we'd run into the problem you're suggesti ng. == hk _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
